(archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parishThe ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.
Origin 2
Pronoun
yowe
(archaic) Obsolete form of you
1440, Letter, 1841, Joseph Stevenson (editor), The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham, page 116,Wirshipfull sir, I commend me to yowe; thankyng yowe of all tendirnesse and labour of lang time shewid to my brether and our cell of Coldyngham, prayand yowe of yowr goode continuance.----
